UN Women calls for a strong Gender Action Plan at COP30 to keep gender equality as a central pillar for climate action
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Media Advisory )UN Women is calling for the adoption of a transformative, well-funded, and accountable Gender Action Plan (GAP)
Briefing remarks on the situation of women and girls in Sudan
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press briefing )From the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional DiUN call for the protection and prioritization of women and girls amid Sudan’s acute food insecurity.
Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.
How to end wars: Invest in the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Story )Twenty-five years since the world declared that peace requires gender equality, funds for peacebuilders are down and conflicts are on the rise.
Providing mental health and psychosocial support to Uganda’s Ebola survivors.
Stories & Blogs WHO-Africa (News )“In every outbreak, behind the statistics are real people – frightened, grieving and often stigmatized,” says Ayub Maswaswa, a mental health and psychosocial.
WHO and the European Union launch collaboration to advance digitized health systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) announced today a new agreement to support the digital transformation of health systems and wider adoption of WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Republic of Congo reinforces measures to curb potential Ebola outbreak.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The Republic of Congo has stepped up measures to rapidly detect and respond to potential Ebola outbreak as neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a new outbreak of the virus in Kasai Province in the central region of the country.
Cameroon: A beacon of hope for adolescents and young people living with HIV.
Stories & Blogs WHO-Africa (News )Young people aged 15 to 24 accounted for nearly 19% of new infections, with 2,228 cases recorded that year—a 49% drop compared to the 4,550 new infections reported in 2019.
Gender equality remains a unifying force for the world – 2025 must be our turning point.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Speech )Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, UN headquarters, 22 September 2025.
World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Governments commit to more than 212 actions showing global support for women and girls.